Lee v. United States United States District Court for the Southern District of New York October 2, 2018, Decided; October 2, 2018, Filed 18 CV 1675 (VB); 14 CR 94 (VB) Opinion MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER Briccetti, J. : Petitioner Destin Lee, proceeding pro se...
Cooper v. Harris Supreme Court of the United States December 5, 2016, Argued; May 22, 2017, Decided No. 15-1262. Opinion Justice Kagan delivered the opinion of the Court. The Constitution entrusts States with the job of designing congressional districts. But it...
Respondent abortion clinics were subjected to numerous large-scale blockades at which protesters marched, stood, knelt, sat, or lay in clinic parking lot driveways and doorways, blocking or hindering cars from entering the lots, as well as blocking or interfering...
United States v. Blaszczak United States District Court for the Southern District of New York March 29, 2018, Decided; March 29, 2018, Filed S1 17-cr-0357 (LAK) Opinion [*738] MEMORANDUM OPINION Lewis A. Kaplan , District Judge . Defendant Robert Olan, one of...
Rotella v. Wood Supreme Court of the United States November 3, 1999, Argued ; February 23, 2000, Decided No. 98-896 Opinion [*551] [**1078] [****6] [***1053] JUSTICE SOUTER delivered the opinion of the Court. The commencement of petitioner's civil treble...
Manhattan Sports Rests. of Am., LLC v Lieu Supreme Court of New York, Appellate Division, First Department January 31, 2017, Decided ; January 31, 2017, Entered 654076/13, 2943A, 595458/14, 2943 Opinion [*727] [**468] Orders, Supreme Court, New York County...
INS v. St. Cyr Supreme Court of the United States April 24, 2001, Argued ; June 25, 2001, Decided No. 00-767 Opinion [***357] [**2275] [*292] JUSTICE STEVENS delivered the opinion of the Court. Both the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996...
In re Nat'l Prescription Opiate Litig. United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit April 15, 2020, Decided; April 15, 2020, Filed File Name: 20a0116p.06 No. 20-3075 Opinion ] KETHLEDGE, Circuit [*2] Judge. The rule of law applies in multidistrict...
Harry's Cadillac-Pontiac-GMC Truck Co. v. Motors Ins. Corp. Court of Appeals of North Carolina May 15, 1997, Heard in the Court of Appeals ; July 1, 1997, Filed NO. COA96-1211 Opinion [**250] [*699] MARTIN, John C., Judge. Plaintiff Harry's Cadillac...
Arizona voters adopted Proposition 200 in 2004, and that initiative was embodied in Ariz. Rev. Stat. Ann. § 16-166(F) and required county recorders to reject any application for registration to vote that was not accompanied by satisfactory evidence of United...
Plaintiff and individual defendant owned all of the stock of the defendant corporations. A written agreement existed between them under which both parties agreed to exercise voting rights in an effort to maintain benefits from the corporation's success. Litigation...
Following the failure of negotiations for an agreement regarding terms and conditions of employment, employees of respondent Mackay Radio & Telegraph Company ("MacKay") went on a strike. MacKay brought employees from its offices in other cities to...
About the year 1877, petitioner Ellen Regis began to compound and distribute a preparation for medicinal use in cases of dyspepsia and other ailments, to which she applied as a distinguishing name the word, “Rex.” The word was put upon the boxes and...
AvMed, Inc. was a corporation that delivers health care services. It has a corporate office in Florida, and in December 2009, two laptop computers were stolen from that office. The laptops contained AvMed customers’ sensitive information, and when they were...
Cavalea Continental Freight bought several parcels of land from Nabisco while Burns Philp Food bought the remainder. In 1986, real estate records were changed to reflect these transactions, but something went awry. Tax officials treated Burns Philp as the owner...
The deceased was shot after dark in his house by someone standing outside. One of the defendants was indicted for his murder, and the other was indicted for being an accessory before the fact. During their trial, the State proposed to give in evidence the deceased's...
Defendants Robert H. Hopkins, Jr., Morten Hopkins, and John W. Harrell were officers or directors of one or more savings and loan institutions. They wished to make large contributions to various candidates or political groups in an effort to prevent passage of...
Plaintiff landowners brought an action for trespass against defendant landowners, who filed a counterclaim to quiet title and for damages. The circuit court quieted title to the disputed land, which consisted mainly of undeveloped wooded area and swampland, in...
Defendant was indicted after trading a controlled substance for a pistol. He pleaded guilty to a drug trafficking offense but asserted that an additional mandatory minimum sentence was improperly imposed under 18 U.S.C.S. § 924(c)(1)(A) for using a firearm...
Plaintiff Shoshana Hebshi is a natural person, a United States citizen, a resident of Ohio, and the daughter of a Jewish mother and a father who emigrated from Saudi Arabia. On September 11, 2011, Plaintiff Shoshana Hebshi flew on Frontier Airlines flight 623....
Plaintiff Tillie Moss, a passenger on defendant Rolla Wells' streetcar, was injured at Eighteenth and Carr streets in the city of St. Louis, alleged that she was injured when she was thrown from Wells’ streetcar while she was endeavoring to alight from...
In two cases, appellant trustee and appellant retirement funds sued appellee outside professionals, asserting, inter alia, fraud and malpractice arising from misconduct which led to the financial collapse of two corporations. Both cases were dismissed by the trial...
Esam Fouad Hamdi filed a petition for a writ of habeas corpus as next friend of his son, Yaser Esam Hamdi, a detainee at the Norfolk Naval Station Brig who was captured as an alleged enemy combatant during ongoing military operations in Afghanistan. In its order...
In 2013, plaintiff-appellant Dean Nicosia purchased 1 Day Diet , a weight loss product containing sibutramine, a controlled substance that had been removed from the market in October 2010, on the website of defendant-appellee Amazon.com, Inc. ("Amazon"...
Plaintiff Mary Conley, a sixth grade teacher at a suburban middle school in the Boston metropolitan area, saw John, her student in her English class and homeroom, writing on a piece of paper with a black marker and observed that he had written the words, "People...